Nathaniel Rateliff & Jesse Welles Win Americana Awards
[Nashville Scene] Wednesday evening, the Ryman once again played host to a phenomenal assembly of talent as fans flocked in for the 24th Americana Honors and Awards. The happening — each year it feels like a star-studded concert during which an awards ceremony happens to break out — is the keystone event of AmericanaFest, which continues ...
Die Spitz’s Anarchic Fun Can’t be Contained
[NME] This snarling, genre-mashing Austin quartet are the most exciting new rock band on the planet, and they’re doing everything their way Words by Huw Baines llie Livingston leans on the glass frontage of an almost empty laundromat. Washed out by the half-alive glow of neon strip lights, she sparks a cigarette and slips on a ...
Jeff Tweedy on His New Triple Album, “Twilight Override”
[The New Yorker] Wilco’s front man on his forthcoming solo record—a triple album, but “whittled down from five,” as he tells Amanda Petrusich. “I’ve made single records that feel longer.” With David Remnick Listen here.
Check Out Robert Plant and Saving Grace’s New Song “Chevrolet,” a Reworked Version of the 1965 Donovan Tune “Hey Gyp”
[American Songwriter] By Matt Friedlander Robert Plant and his current group, Saving Grace, have released a third advance track from their upcoming debut album, Saving Grace. The song, titled “Chevrolet,” is a reimagined version of the 1965 Donovan song “Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness).” “Hey Gyp,” in turn, was an adaptation of the 1930 Delta blues tune “Can I Do It ...
After a Decade Away, Alabama Shakes Return With a New Song, ‘Another Life’
[NPR] Is there a more powerful marketing tool than nostalgia? It’s an essential element of many a reunion tour, where audiences clamor to see acts from pop music’s past romp through the hits of their heydays. There’s something a bit more complicated, and rewarding, going on with the reunion of the Alabama Shakes. For one ...
